Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Jeremiah 48:35)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:35:

  • Kupsabiny: “I will destroy each person in Moab
    who is making sacrifices there on the hills
    and burning to the idols
    things that smell sweet.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will-put-(an)-end in Moab those (who) are-offering in the place-of-worship in the high places and are-burning incense to their gods. I, the LORD, (am) the-(one) saying this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I, Yahweh, say that I will get rid of the people who offer sacrifices on the hilltops,
    and burn incense to their gods.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 48:36)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:36:

  • Kupsabiny: “So, my stomach feels sorry for Moab
    like when a person blows a flute while mourning.
    I also cry like that for the people of Kir-hareseth,
    because all the wealth they had amassed has been plundered from them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “‘Therefore I truly mourn for Moab and for those from-Kir Hareset, like a lonely music/sound of a flute for the dead. The wealth that they have acquired has- now -gone.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I moan for the people of Moab and Kir-Hareseth
    like someone playing a funeral song on a flute,
    because all their wealth will disappear.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 48:37)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:37:

  • Kupsabiny: “Those people shave their hair
    and they shave their beards.
    All cut scars on the hands
    and put on sacks.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Everyone shows mourning by shaving-off-of-hair/shaving-the-head, shaving-the-beard, wounding their hands, and wearing sackcloth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The men will shave their heads and their beards to show that they are mourning.
    They all will slash their hands and wear rough cloth/sackcloth around their waists.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 48:38)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:38:

  • Kupsabiny: “Only the mourning of people is heard from
    the roofs of all the houses of Moab
    and where many people are sitting
    there is no other thing,
    because I have crushed the land of Moab
    like a potsherd that is no longer wanted.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The people are crying on the rooftops of their homes and in the plasa, for I destroyed Moab like a jar that has-broken that no one wants anymore.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “In every home and in the town plazas/centers in Moab there will be people who are mourning,
    because I will have destroyed Moab
    like someone smashes an old jar that no one wants any more.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 48:39)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:39:

  • Kupsabiny: “Oh, yes, what a terrible destruction! Cry out!
    See how (they/it) have hid the eyes because of fear/shame!
    (People) grin and laugh
    and it is terrible when all its neighbors hear (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “How ruined Moab is! Listen to the crying of her residents. Moab was truly put to shame, and it (is)-being-mocked and being-loathed by all the nations in its surrounding.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Moab will be completely shattered!
    And you will hear the people wailing loudly!
    They will be disgraced.
    Moab will become a nation that people ridicule.
    The people in nearby countries will be horrified about what has happened there.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 48:40)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:40:

  • Kupsabiny: “God is saying,
    ‘Another nation will gallop/swoop towards
    the land of Moab like an eagle and fight (it).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The LORD still continued to say, ‘Look! The enemy of Moab (is) like an eagle that flies to swoop this.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “This is what I, Yahweh, say:
    ‘Look! Their enemies will be swooping/rushing down over Moab
    like an eagle swoops down to seize an animal.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 48:41)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:41:

  • Kupsabiny: “Its cities will be taken over,
    and/with the guarded/protected place.
    The soldiers of Moab will be terrified on that day
    like a woman who is about to give birth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The cities and the strong-wall/something-that-gives-security of Moab will-be-taken-over. At that time the soldiers of Moab will-be-terrified/-troubled like a woman about to-give-birth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Its cities will be captured,
    its fortresses will be seized.
    Even their warriors will be afraid,
    like a woman who is about to give birth.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Jeremiah 48:42)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 48:42:

  • Kupsabiny: “The people of Moab will be destroyed
    because they rebelled against God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Moab will- surely -be-destroyed because of her rebellion against the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “The leaders of Moab boasted against me, Yahweh,
    so Moab will be destroyed.” (Source: Translation for Translators)